MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS
INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL
| Gors Fawr Stone Circle |
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| Gors Fawr Stone Circle stands on a moor close to the village of Mynachlog-ddu in the shadow of the Preseli Mountains. This near-perfect circle of 16 stones, measures about 22m in diameter and 8 of the stones are of spotted dolerite, the famous ‘bluestone’ sourced as being from the Carn Meini outcrops to the north. The circle which dates from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age had according to antiquarian reports, an avenue leading to the two outliers, which are found 200m to the NNE of circle. Although the stones are on the small size, the astounding location of this circle more than makes up for it. A recent geo-phys survey by the SPACES project, searching for any buried structures which might lie hidden beneath the circle, revealed nothing. The conclusion is that this monument probably looks much the same today as it did to its late Neolithic or Bronze Age builders. Nearby is a pair of standing stones which appears to frame the distant Carn Menyn outcrop when viewed from the south-west. |
| LOCATION Latitude: 51°.931588N Longitude: 4°.714677W |
